NBC to get rid of pilots

January 23rd, 2008 | Category: Industry, Programming

This seems to be NBC Announcement Week. A day after we reported that the Peacock network was going to scrap their upfront presentation that year comes that news: they’re getting rid of pilot episodes too!

Jeff Zucker says that pilots are too expensive and often aren’t even a good indication of what the rest of the show’s episodes will

be like (we’ve seen that with many shows recently - the first episode is big and expensive and incredible and next the following episodes…not so much). plus, many shows never even get beyond a pilot episode, so he doesn’t want to spend millions on pilots.

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Original post by Bob Sassone

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